It goes without saying that a modern food or beverage plant handles lots of powders, either as raw ingredients or finished products. To handle all this stuff, plants are equipped with powder transport and conveying systems as well as powder silos, feeders, blenders, de-baggers and filling machines.

Development and design of powder-handling equipment and systems for the process industries present engineers with two problems. First, the world’s process industries are very diverse, ranging from petroleum and petrochemicals to fine chemicals, food and beverages, pharmaceuticals, plastics, pigments, detergents, fertilizers and more.

The C-LEVER flow meter is a dynamic bulk solids flow meter working on the principal of centripetal force. Michael MacClancy M.D. of REMBE® LTD reviews how the product works and provides test data in the article.